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State and local governments are increasingly confronted
with difficult choices regarding the provision of public
services, school funding, tax policies, and public infrastructure
and human capital investment. As business and households
become ever more mobile, Econsult's State and Local
Policy and Finance Group is uniquely qualified to
help state and local governments develop strategies to
efficiently deliver public services demanded by residents,
develop tax revenue streams that are fair and impose the
least distortion to the private economy, and make the
investments necessary — in both bricks-and-mortar and
people — to ensure state or locality's future competitiveness.
Just as importantly, the Group can help private entities
seeking to participate in the policy process and businesses
seeking to optimize in the context of changing public
policies.
Our State and Local Policy and Finance Group has wide
and deep expertise in analyzing:
- State and Local Economies
What are their competitive strengths and weaknesses?
What are the broader economic forces affecting their
economies?
- Mechanisms of Local Public
Finance
What are the most efficient mechanisms to generate
funds to pay for the public provision of goods and
services? What are the economic implications of alternative
choices?
- Mechanisms for Public Choice
How is state or local public policy determined, and
how are budget allocation decisions made?
- Improving Public Sector
Efficiency
How is productivity affected by institutional structures,
including intergovernmental relationships, labor-management
relationships and compensation systems, governance,
applications of new technologies to production, and
public-private partnerships?
Our engagements have included analyses of economic impacts
of local taxes on economic activity, evaluation of alternative
tax structures for school finance, assessments of public
investments in various economic development activities
and in analyses of the factors affecting productivity
of government agencies and public authorities.
Our staff and affiliates include nationally recognized
experts in public finance and urban economics. Staff members
have outstanding academic credentials and extensive decision-making
experience at the highest levels of the public policy
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